to be shocked and appalled by the lesbian mum article in The Times...

[peeringintothevoid]

Their six year old son has an iPod.... he's six, for chrissakes!! Do they not care about his developing hearing, sticking earphones in his delicate wee ears?

And isn't that even worse in terms of spoiling them than a DS??

Do you have a link? Sound slike a very interesting article to me, I'd like to read it.

An ipod for a six yr old? It's not natural I tell you, not natural!!

What has it got to do with her sexuality though? Have you got a link?

MaamRuby

It was a very interesting article Starbuck ... I read it in the paper edition. I've just gone on the website to get the link to it for you, and discovered that you now have to subscribe to the bloody thing to access content. I'm even more shocked and appalled at that than I was at the iPod for a six year old!

my kids have ipods wih child head phones.they love em

God really? Do you let them play music on them too though? DD(7) likes her music loud - could never trust her not to whack the volume right up at the earliest (ie me not looking) opportunity.

child headphones with volume limit.they love ipod.i load charlie lola etc

Can you limit the volume on them then?

[scratches chin thinking that iPod suddenly seems much more reasonable emoticon]

I'm with you on the hard shoulder thing. TBH, the volume of the stereo when turned up to drown out sound of incessant whining is probably equivalent to iPod sound. I think, on reflection, that I may have BU.

kids headphones limit volume use with ipod

You can buy buggies that will play an ipod to your precious offspring, take off your judgy pants.

There are plenty of hetrosexual parents who over indulge their children too. Spoiling your precious brats isn't linked to your sexuality now is it?

Ok, IADBU. I apologise unreservedly, and shall be ordering sound-limited headphones and an iPod as soon as I can afford it (sometime next year then, probably).

Thanks scottishmummy & MaamRuby for enlightening me. I confess, I'm a bit of a technophobe.

havent read the aricle whats the beef

faeriefruitcake I wasn't meaning to imply that brat spoiling was linked to sexuality.

I was genuinely appalled at the concept of a six year old with an iPod (I now stand corrected), but I confess that I posted the AIBU title simply to garner attention. I have no problem whatsoever with lesbian mothers, in fact I have known some wonderful ones.

Nevertheless, in referring to the article 'the lesbian mum article' is more useful in identifying it than 'the mum article', since that's the point of the article (that they're lesbians).

OMG my kids have ipods, am I a lesbian?

BTW, you can limit the actual ipod in settings, so no need for different headphones.

kormachameleon

It's a good article, by author Emma Donoghue, about how she had to work on her partner for six years to persuade her to have children...."for her, being spared motherhood was one of the best things about being gay".

my kids age 4 and 6 have MP3 players. They have kids headphones.

I wondered the same thing about a six year old with an I-pod- but she does balance it out by not let giving him a pet dog

CrunchyFrog - that is so funny I actually really did laugh out loud, (to myself, say here alone in the living room).

yes on ipod settings you can limit the volume,no need for special headphones

Ds has my old Iphone (without headphones). Does that make me bisexual?